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On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:25:51AM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: |
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> I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about this way |
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> of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, as in what is at |
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> the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't they want to make it so |
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> that is not able to be extracted at all? If I had a digital signature, I |
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> wouldn't want to put it somewhere that it could be used by someone that I |
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> wouldn't want it to be used by. |
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What's to prevent me from printing it out and forging the signature by |
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hand? Or, god forbid, zooming in, taking a screen-cap, and using the |
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extracted image that way? If this design is *for security*, there are |
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many problems. |
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(Incidentally, Donald Knuth stopped sending out real cheques for bug |
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discovery because people would scan it, put it online for bragging |
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rights, and Knuth's bank account would get targeted for fraudulant |
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transactions.) |
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A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine. |
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